College Baseball

It is the Pac-12 Conference, as in 12 members. As in 12 NCAA team championships won in 2017-18 alone.

That was one fewer than its schools won the previous year and one shy of the all-time record that it also holds, and more than the haul of the next two best conferences combined (the ACC and SEC had five each). It was the fourth straight year the Pac-12 hit double figures, the 13th straight year it claimed the most national titles of any conference, the 52nd time in 58 years.

And that doesn’t count the 10 runner-up finishes in 2017-18, or putting two teams in the semifinals 11 times, or putting at least one school in the Final Four of 23 different sports.

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